Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations

Courage is not the absence of fear. It is rather not letting your fear control your actions

The teen years are not a vacation from responsibility,” we had told the columnist. “They are the training ground of future leaders who dare to be responsible

What is possible when a generation stops assuming that someone else will take care of the brokenness in the world - or that someone else will capitalize on current opportunities - and realizes that they are called to take action?

Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials.

Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity” (NIV).

It all boils down to a principle at the heart of Christian character: we have to care more about pleasing God than we care about pleasing man.

It’s about an idea. It’s about rebelling against low expectations. It’s about a movement that is changing the attitudes and actions of teens around the world. And we want you to be part of it.

Our uprising is against a cultural mind-set that twists the purpose and potential of the teen years and threatens to cripple our generation. Our uprising won’t be marked by mass riots and violence, but by millions of individual teens quietly choosing to turn the low expectations of our culture upside down.

For all of us, expectations are a self-fulfilling prophecy.

God calls us to be examples. Where our culture might expect little, God expects great things.

Jesus said that it doesn’t matter if you have the admiration of the world if you lose your soul,

the modern concept of adolescence is not a biological stage, but a cultural mind-set. It doesn’t stop when you graduate from high school, or when you turn twenty-one.

Do Hard Things will help recruit, develop, and deploy a new generation of young culture warriors.

Working on the campaigns taught us that never trying is a lot worse than losing.

the three pillars of the Rebelution: character, competence, and collaboration

And it’s not just in America. Countries around the world have developed names for young “adults

Isn’t that exactly what has happened? Entire industries—movie, music, fashion, fast food—and countless online services revolve around the consumer habits of, you guessed it, teens. With all this money and attention focused on teens, the teen years are viewed as some sort of vacation.

We’re passionate about these causes because God has placed them on our hearts.